UNM students can go global next week. The University’s Global Education Offices, with the help of various other organizations, will launch this year’s International Education Week on Monday. Danielle Gilliam, administrative officer for GEO, said this year’s international week will be a big one.
New Mexico men’s head basketball coach Craig Neal said he’s set on four players in his starting lineup. No real surprise, but it will be Cameron Bairstow, Alex Kirk, Hugh Greenwood and Kendall Williams — all returning starters from a year ago.
It’s been tough for the New Mexico football team to get into gear the past three weeks. The Lobos stumbled out of the gate at Wyoming, trailing 21-0 before losing 38-31 on Oct. 12. The following week, UNM was routed 45-10 by Utah State, a game that went downhill after the Lobos fumbled on their first possession of the game.
The key to the New Mexico women’s basketball season is in its bench. Head coach Yvonne Sanchez said the two exhibition games have served the purpose of getting her team ready for the season opener.
“If only people on the right would put as much energy into making it work as they would attacking it, it would work. This is the typical absurdity we get from Washington and the progressive left. But I’m not surprised. And of course, the reason their given program isn’t going so well is because those of us that have warned about it were exactly right.
Absentee voting for undergraduate senator spots begins today and the Team You slate hopes to outwit the other candidates for the sought-after Associated Students of New Mexico seats. Ten student politicians will run with the Team You for ASUNM for this semester’s senate elections.
Contract renegotiations between insurance provider Presbyterian Health Plan and UNM’s Health Sciences Center have left some patients looking for a new primary care provider. PHP members who use UNMH as their primary care, which includes family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics, can continue to see their UNMH providers until Dec. 31.
A year after legalizing recreational marijuana, Colorado voters have approved an excise tax of 15 percent on the drug, with a 10 percent sales tax that will be imposed starting next year.
All five New Mexico starters reached double figures as the Lobos won their second preseason exhibition game before the regular season begins. Forward Cameron Bairstow led the pack with 16 points and nine rebounds in UNM’s 94-51 victory over Jamestown Wednesday night at The Pit.
“Halloween is the one night a year where a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.” ~Mean Girls Halloween is also the one night a year where it is socially acceptable for boys to wear tights, Chipotle is discounted and your dream of marrying a doctor or casting a love spell on Harry Potter can seem closer than ever before.
When construction for the Duck Pond began in 1974, University architect Van Dorn Hooker said he shrugged off initial criticism of the project. As Dorn Hooker wrote of the most vocal nay-sayers, the staff of the New Mexico Daily Lobo, in his book “Only in New Mexico: An Architectural History of the University of New Mexico,”
Former University architect Van Dorn Hooker spent the past three years composing a comprehensive list of short biographies each person whose name is on a UNM building, monument or memorial. While Dorn Hooker’s untitled work is waiting to be published, the Daily Lobo has compiled a short list detailing three prominent figures.
The droning roar reverberates against the wooden floorboards as the movements of a lithe woman weave about the stage. A hum sounds again as a man with a gray ponytail blows into the 3-foot didgeridoo. Behind them, the soft swishing and scratching of charcoal sticks on paper.
Theater students dive into sexually repressed, 19th century Germany in this season’s musical, exploring dangerously intimate issues that are still relevant today. Racy and controversial both then and now, “Spring Awakening” was originally written and staged by Frank Wedekind in 1891.
A Bernalillo court ruled Wednesday morning that former UNM President F. Chris Garcia, who faced charges of prostitution in 2011, should be allowed access to property seized by authorities during investigations relating to the case. Second District Judicial Court Judge Stan Whitaker approved a court order after the confidential hearing that morning. The request for the order was filed by Garcia’s lawyers Robert Gorence and Andrea Harris in October.
The fourth-seeded University of New Mexico women’s soccer team fell to fifth-seeded Utah State in penalty kicks after the game ended in a 0-0 double overtime tie in the second round of the Mountain West Conference Tournament at the UNM Soccer Complex Tuesday night.
The apple is one of the most popular fruits in America due to its diverse uses. Apples can be eaten raw, baked in pies, dried, pressed for cider (sweet or hard) or used for vinegar. The apple really is the All-American fruit.
On Oct. 31, a UNMPD officer was dispatched to the Student Union Building in response to a reported battery. According to the police report, the female victim was at the southern end of the SUB when an unfamiliar man touched her “from her shoulders down her back” without her permission.
Motörhead seems to get louder with every new album, and “Aftershock” is no exception. The 21st album from the band, which was founded by Lemmy Kilmister and now features Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee, never strays from the group’s speed metal roots, and it doesn’t disappoint, either.
Bring up the subject of UFOs in mixed company and you’re likely get one of the following reactions: sarcastic eye-rolling or a silent, vacant stare. The reality of unidentified flying objects is universally derided in the mainstream media as unworthy of serious consideration.
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